Head for barrels and the like.



A. J. HODGE & H. B. RUGGLES.

HEAD FOB BARRELS AND THE LIKE. APPLICATION FILED APR-26.1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented. Aug, 20, 19 18,

Application filed April 26, 1915. Serial No. 24,077.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that WG,.ARTHUR J. Home and HENRY B. RUGGLEs, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Pasadena, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Heads for Barrels and the like, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements in heads for barrels, kegs and the like and has for its pri mary object, the provision of an improved form of expanding head which will be composed of a small number of parts and may be readily employed for closingthe ends of barrels, kegs and the like.

The invention has for another object, the provision of a head of the foregoing character including a fiat solid disk and a concavoconvex radially slit disk the center of which is adapted to be pressed toward the center of the first mentioned disk for spreading the outer circular edge of the outer disk into binding engagement with the wall of the croze of a barrel or other receptacle and sealing the head in position to prevent withdrawal or movement of the same.

:Thepresent invention has for a still further object, the provision of a head of the foregoing character in which will be included a novel form of fastening member the fiat solid inner disk and projecting through the outer disk to receive a special form of seal to secure the outer disk in its flattened or operative position and thereby prevent movement or withdrawal of the head without previous destruction of the seal. I

Withthese andother objects in View, the

invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more in detail described and the asserted novelty specifically pointed out in the claims. i

In the accompanying drawings which clearly and fully illustrate the invention Figure 1 represents a plan view of a barrel or other circular receptacle with the improved form of head loosely positioned therein;

. Fig. 2 is a vertical .transverse section on the'planeof line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showing the head secured in position and sealed;

and Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section on a plane at right angles to the plane of Fig. 1.

Referring more particularly to the drawings in'which similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views,"l designates a'barrel or other receptacle of cylindrical form, of which we have shown only the upper portion and which is provided with a croze 2 adjacent its end and preferably produced by slightly decreasing the interior diameter of the receptacle above. and below the point at which the croze 2 is located, thereby providing the lower shoulder 3 and upper shoulder 4 of said-croze 2 with the lower shoulder 3 projecting slightly farther toward the center of the receptacle than the upper shoulder 4 so that the disks 5 and 10 may be readily placed in position to rest upon said lower shoulder 3, as will be readily understood by referring to Figsu2 and 4 of the drawings.

'The first mentioned or inner disk 5 of the head is preferably fiat and solid and may be composed of compressed pulp or fiber or any other suitable material. The disk 5 is provided with a central opening 6 through which projects the upwardly extended sta- .ple(7 which has the lower ends of its legs extended and then bent back and wrapped around one another, as shown at 8, to prevent spreading of the legs of said staple 7 The ends of the legs are then again extended and terminate in the upwardly directed prongs 9 which are driven into the bottom of the inner disk 5 to secure the staple 7 in proper position. I ployed in'this case is preferably the same as the form employed in the co-pending application Serial Number 21,43 2, but it will be understood that any suitable form of staple may be employed in the present case.

The second or outer disk 10 is also preferably formed of compressed pulp or fiber but may be composed of any suitable material and isof concavo-convex form and provided with a radially directed slit 11 extending from its outer or circular edge to the central opening 12 of said disk 10, within which opening 12 is positioned the reinforcing and staple receiving eyelet 13, through which the staple 7 extends when the outer FFT I This form of staple em disk 10 is placed'upon the inner solid fiat disk 5.

When the outer disk 10 is in normal position with its central portion spaced some distance above thecenter of the inner solid fiat disk 5, the circular disks 5 and 10 are of substantially the same diameter equally spaced from the vertical wall of the croze 2. As soon as the central port-ion oft the outer disk 10 is pressed downwardly toward the solid fiat inner disk 5, however, the opposite edges or walls of the slit 11, which are normally close togetherand practically parallel, begin to separate, especially at the outer end of said slit 11 and the outer circular edge of the disk 10 moves outwardly beyond the outer circular edge of the solid fiat inner disk 5 and toward the vertical wall of the croze 2. When the center of the outer disk 10 is pressed to within only a short distance of the center of the inner flat solid disk5, the outer circular'edge of saidouter disk 10 is in binding engagement with the vertical wall 01 the eroze 2 and the upper end of the staple 7 projects fora short distance above the center of said outer disk 10.

A suitable spacing washer 1 1 is then placed over the end of the staple 7 and the straight leg 15 of the wire seal threaded through the end of the staple 7, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. The wire seal is preferably of substantially ellipitical. form, the same as in the previously referred to eopending application Serial 'llumber 21,482..

Nhile this form oi seal is preferred, it will be understood that any suitable iorm of seal may be employed. When using this form of seal, however, the-straight leg 15 V is moved through the staple 7 until the end of the staple 7 is opposite the outwardly ofiiset portion 16 of the long irregular leg of the seal and inwardly oi the inwardly offset stop portion 17 of said long irregular leg. The outer end of the long irregular leg of the seal is bent back upon itself, as shown at 18 and the seal proper 19, formed of lead or some other suitable soft material, is slidably mounted upon the same and after the seal is in position, the seal proper 19 is moved inwardly until it is threaded upon the free end of the straight leg 15 to draw closer together the straight and irregular legs and thereby prevent the seal from being moved any considerable distance in either direction upon the staple 7. After the seal proper 19 has been moved to its innermost position itris ready to be squeezed or compressed by a pair of pliers or any other suitable tool to cause 'the teeth 20, formed on the free end of the straight leg 15 and an opposite portion of the, irregular leg, to bite into said seal proper 19 and pre vent the same from being returned to its outermost or original position, thereby makand ing it impossible to remove the seal and withdraw the head. It will therefore be seen that after the seal proper 19 has once been moved to its innermost or operative position and squeezed or compressed, the seal must be destroyed before the head can be removed or withdrawn from the receptacle.

head after it has been secured in position This will make it impossible for unauthorized parties to tamper with the and sealed, without leaving evidence of their act.

The inner end ot'the straight leg 15 and the irregular leg of the seal are connected and bent at about aright angle to form the hook 21' which may be inserted in the eyelet 13 for the purpose of removing the outer disk 10 after destruction of the seal by the invention has been shown and illustrated,

it will be understood that'minor changes in the details of construction and combination and'arrangements of parts may be made within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the spirit of the invention or sacrificing any of the advan-' tages of the same.

What is claimed is 1. 'A closure head comprising a flat supportingdisk, a concave-convex locking disk engaged against adapted to have'its outer edge expanded beyond the outer edge of the first mentioned disk to fasten it inplac-e, and means/for locking the second mentioned disk in expanded position.

2. A barrel head closing device eompris: ing a fiat disk supported in the end of the barrel, an expansible disk supported on said flat disk and. normally spaced therefrom at the center, said expansible disk hav-- ing means whereby, the same'may be pressed downwardly the outer. edges for locking said disklin posolid fiat disk 5, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. It will be underthe hook 21'may be 7 7 for the purpose of be removed at one time in this manthe necessity of first removmg the first mentioned disk and at the center for expanding sition, and means insertible through and for locking said disks in looking position.

3. The combination with a receptacle having a croze formed therein; of a double 5 disk fiber head, the outer edge of one of the disks of said head being in binding engagement with the Wall of said croze when said disk is forced to operative position against the remaining disk of said head, a staple 10 member fixed in the fiber of said remaining disk and projecting through the first mentioned disk whensaid first mentioned disk is in operative position, and sealing means engaged through and looked upon said stapie to prevent return of said first mentioned 15 disk to inoperative position and thereby permit movement and withdrawal of said double disk head.

In testimony whereof We afiix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR J. HODGE. HENRY B. RUGGLES.

VVitnessesz' R. H. PINNEY, EDITH C. SOLQUIST.

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